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Camera designed for outdoor photography, featuring Pentax's first Hybrid AF system

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Ricoh Imaging Co has launched the Pentax K-70 digital SLR camera.

The Pentax K-70 is designed to be an all-weather camera, thanks to its outstanding dust-proof, weather-resistant construction and dependable cold-proof performance down to temperatures as low as -10°C. It incorporates a newly developed accelerator unit, which performs high-level noise processing in collaboration with the PRIME MII imaging engine and allows super-high-sensitivity photography at a top sensitivity of ISO 102400. It also features a new Hybrid AF system, which harmonizes the advantages of both the image-plane phase-matching AF system and the contrast detection AF system, in order to assure the maximum speed and accuracy of AF operations during Live View shooting.

It even provides a range of advanced, upper-class-equivalent features, including the PENTAX-developed Pixel Shift Resolution System; an innovative AA (anti-aliasing) filter simulator with the same moiré reduction effect as an optical AA filter; an optical viewfinder with nearly 100 percent field of view; and an in-body shake reduction mechanism with a shake reduction effect equivalent to approximately 4.5 shutter steps. For remote shooting operation and easy transfer of captured images to smartphones and tablet computers, it also features a built-in wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) module.

The camera provides such user-friendly features as a newly designed grip providing firm hold of the camera body even with a gloved hand, and redesigned mode dial and control buttons on the camera's top and back panels to assure exceptional operability. It also comes equipped with an outdoor-friendly LCD monitor whose brightness level can be instantly adjusted to the lighting level of a shooting location.

Price: 99,630 yen.

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I would like to have this camera.

But i do not like the price.

Why is the good stuff out of my income range :(

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But i do not like the price.

Price is even higher if you get it with a lens. But body-only is discounted by mass retailers like BIC and Yodobashi.

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What about manual exposure for video? Should I assume this? The trick with camera gear is to be able to write it off at the end of the year. Start a wedding business, or something. Have two more friends go in on it and share it.

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